diftance has a rich effect.' I have introduced a View o f the
Palace: on the foreground of the picture is one o f the pavi*
lions, and on a high bank is a mofque, with two minarets j
and adjoining is a. durgaw, or burial place, with "a view of
the river. The piCfore from which the print .was engraved
was painted on the fpot.
As at this time Major Brown was appointed on an embafly
to Mirza Shuffy Kawn, and..was to proceed immediately on
his million through a part of the country which' I intended to
vifit, I .wrote to that'gentleman, fignifying my wifhes to ac-<
company him j as I knew that under the protection of. his
public character I Ihould experience no inconvenience from
the fufpicions of the people with refpeCt to my purfuits j and
as in his anfwer I found he was not to be at Etawah until the
ninth of February, I determined, in the interim, to make a
journey to Fyzabad and the ancient city of Oud. I was af-
.fifted in this by Mr. Briftow, the then Refident at Lucknow ;
and immediately on the receipt of Major Brown’s letter I fpt
out on my journey, and arrived at Fyzabad on the focorid
day; a diftance of forty cofs, or eighty Englilh miles, in a
fouth-eaft direction. As the Refident at Lucknow had written
to an officer in the fervice of the Nabob, refiding at
Fyzabad, I was received at my entrance into the city by a
perfonfp who was ordered to Ihew the pallankeen bearers to a
finall houfe in a large garden, which was allotted for my accommodation
during my ftay.
T he city of Fyzabad is pf considerable extent, and appears
to contain a .-great number of. people, chiefly, of the
loweftrclafs -j for thé-court heing removed to Lucknow, drew
after “it the great men, and the moft eminent of the merchants,
bankers, and ftiroffs, or money-changers. Thefe laft are per-
fons in all the towns, and even-'villages, who make large
fums by their knowledge of the exchange, whieH, in Inffia,
is in a ftate of Conftant fluctuation,1«) fhe^feafmjufy of the
poor arid theinduftrious.
. ' T he private luxury and yicbs-Jof .the Muffulman princfes
too frequently reduce them 'to- a ftatefo'f -re^p^&tty, -even
with large revenues ;*'andttqo ofteavthey delegate to artful- de-
figriirig, and avaricious characters, thé management and concerns
'óf the ftate, and become virtually the plunderers inftead
of the parents of their fubjeCts. Thefe men, eager after their
■ own'private gain, and’ knowing-well that thkr conduCt will
Öot bear the blaze of - day, connive at any villainy that may
be- aCted by thofe o f inferior degree; many/:o£ .whom are,
irideéd, their aCtual agents. Thus it is that the people at
large retain no real regard for their governors., and the natural
confequence is, that- thé princes are frequently left, in the
hour of diftrefs, quite déftitute of fupport, and an eafy prey
to-any invader.
, In the city of Fyzabad there are remains*of many- hand-
fome brick buildings. That in which l| refided has a large